nechat (to descend)

Meaning

To descend(P'al) to descend · (Aphel) to deposit · (Hophal) to be deposed, be cast down

How it's translated

coming down 2
deposit 1
deposited 1
so you may deposit 1
he was deposed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezra 3
Daniel 3

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
Daniel 5:20In contextBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Ezra 5:15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
Ezra 6:1Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Ezra 6:5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.

Aramaic dictionary

נְחֵת nechat · to descend

1) to descend 1a) (P'al) to descend 1b) (Aphel) to deposit 1c) (Hophal) to be deposed, be cast down

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “descend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DESCEND, verb intransitive

[Latin To climb.]

To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body.“The rains descended, and the floods came” Matthew 7:25
To go down, or to enter.
To come suddenly; to fall violently.
To go in; to enter.

All definitions and other forms of “descend”

To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
To proceed from a source or original; to be derived.
To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance.
To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense.
In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.

DESCEND, verb transitive

To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.